CSI ETABS® Three Dimensional Analysis and Design of Building Systems Tutorial

The tutorial in the manual is intended to give you hands-on experience using ETABS. For most people, this is the quickest way to become familiar with the program. Our example is a four-story, three-by-two-bay, steel momentframe building with a significant setback above the first story.The bottom story has bracing in two bays and shear walls in two bays. The finished product is shown above. We will develop the model, perform the analysis, check the design against code requirements, and iterate until we find an “optimum” design.